Robert B. Cervero Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning; Professor of City and Regional Planning
Robert Cervero is an internationally renowned author and scholar in the area of sustainable transportation policy and planning. He has been an advisor and consultant on transport projects in many countries, including China, Colombia, Brazil, and Indonesia as well as a host of U.S. cities. His current research is land-use impacts on travel in China under the Volvo Foundation, influences of built environments on public health in Bogotš¢ for the Pan American Health Organization, land-use and environmental impacts of freeway in U.S. cities.
Over the past five years, Professor Cervero has been a regular instructor of transportation planning courses for the National Transit Institute and the World Bank Institute. In 2004, he was the first recipient of the Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning Research. He also won the 2003 Article of the Year award from the Journal of the American Planning Association.
Professor Cervero serves on the editorial boards of Urban Studies, Journal of Planning Literature, and Journal of Public Transportation, chairs the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, and is a Fellow with the Urban Land Institute and World Bank Institute.
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